In a recent interview with GQ, Kobe Bryant couldn't help but imagine what could have been if Chris Paul had come to the Lakers instead of the Clippers.
In December 2011, the Lakers and the New Orleans Hornets agreed to a deal that would have sent Paul...

As the NBA moves to the midpoint of its schedule, there is a tangible desperation from teams expected to be in better places by now.
Tuesday's Miami Heat game against the Oklahoma City Thunder will feature two of those teams. Former Heat forward...

Khloe Kardashian is on the January cover of the British edition of Cosmopolitan, and inside she talks about her split from NBA star Lamar Odom, her fling with rapper French Montana and what she wants in love now: to cuddle. Meanwhile, she has an active...

There's no sugarcoating what 25-for-95 shooting is.
"It's a slump," Derrick Rose said.
Despite the five-game stretch, Rose has made big plays in the fourth quarters of three victories. That included four, fourth-quarter assists and two free throws off...

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Bad record. Passive defense. Hot-and-cold offense.
The Lakers and Boston Celtics have a lot in common, two teams muddling through downtrodden days after meeting in the NBA Finals just 4½ years ago.
Kobe Bryant will be the only Lakers player left from that 2010 Finals, Rajon Rondo the only Celtics holdover when they play Friday at TD Garden.
"That's crazy," Bryant said Wednesday night. "That is absolutely crazy. Time flies."
Maybe that's why they were seen having breakfast together Thursday. Rondo,...

Cliché all you want about the team game, but the NBA, at its highest level, very much can be a singular equation, one player making all the difference.
So on July 11, when LeBron James said he was coming home, as Cleveland exulted, the question became how South Florida would endure.
Erik Spoelstra's team is not the first to be rocked by such a dramatic departure.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar forced his way from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Los Angeles Lakers. Charles Barkley did the same from the...

It's always a problem for the Lakers, this whole Chris Paul thing.
Especially when he zips and whips around them in another Clippers victory, jamming the latest needle in the side of a fan base that still blames David Stern.
With the Lakers so low to start this season, it was hard not to revisit the Paul story lineespecially with him totaling 12 points and 10 assists in the Clippers' 118-111 victory Friday.
Who could forget the former NBA commissioner citing "basketball reasons" for vetoing the...

Farhan Zaidi sees a great trade for the Dodgers.
"Hey Josh Byrnes, what do you think of this?" he asks.
"I like it, let me ask Andrew Friedman," Josh says.
Friedman replies, "I have to run this by Stan Kasten."
Stan says, "Hold on while I get the OK from Magic".
Magic responds, "Let's make this deal, I just need Mark Walter to OK it."
Mark gives the OK to make the deal, but, alas, Brian Sabean of the Giants had already made his own decision and makes the deal.
Is our Dodgers tribe getting...

The Lakers are so upside down, so lost in their worst start since the 1950s, that Kobe Bryant reacted to another loss by almost wishing the Lakers were still together.
Not these Lakers, really. The ones that were champions just a handful of a years ago.
The trip down championship lane happened after the Lakers lost to the New Orleans Pelicans, 109-102, in a game Wednesday that wasn't nearly as close as the score.
Their problems were nothing new — no defense, an over-reliance on Bryant, scant...

A fan kept yelling the same thing, over and over, almost mournfully.
"Where's Kobe?"
Bryant sat out the Lakers' exhibition game Wednesday so he could rest.
By the end of it, though, another fan was screaming something in a more upbeat tone: "He's only 19, baby? Nineteen!"
That would be praise for Julius Randle, who had his best exhibition game by a landslide in the Lakers' 94-86 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers in Ontario.
Randle had 17 points, eight rebounds and a number of coast-to-...